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Do the Causal Principles of Modern Physics Contradict Causal Anti-Fundamentalism?
Anti-Fundamentalism Modern Physics Contradict
2008/4/11
In Norton(2003), it was urged that the world does not conform at a fundamental level to some robust principle of causality. To defend this view, I now argue that the causal notions and principles of m...
Determinism and the Mystery of the Missing Physics
classical mechanics determinism point masses
2008/4/11
This article surveys the difficulties in establishing determinism for classical physics in the context of several distinct foundational approaches to the discipline. It also explains that such formula...
Critical Phenomena and Breaking Drops: Infinite Idealizations in Physics
Thermodynamic Limit Scaling Theory Reduction
2008/4/11
Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics are related to one another through the so-called "thermodynamic limit'' in which, roughly speaking the number of particles becomes infinite. At critical points...
Condensed Matter Physics and the Nature of Spacetime
spacetime condensed matter effective field theory
2008/4/10
This essay considers the prospects of modeling spacetime as a phenomenon that emerges in the low-energy limit of a quantum liquid. It evaluates three examples of spacetime analogues in condensed matte...
Causal Reasoning in Physics
Causation Physics Russell Norton
2008/4/10
In this paper I examine several neo-Russellian arguments for the claim that there is no room for an asymmetric notion of cause in mature physical theories. I argue that these arguments are unsuccessf...
A Theory of the Universe from Contemporary Physics: Evaluating Smolin's Argument for the Elimination of 'Ideal Elements'
quantum cosmology Barbour-Bertotti theory
2008/4/9
I explore Leibnizian themes in the theoretical physicist's pursuit of a quantum cosmology by examining Smolin's program based on the elimination of ideal elements. These constructs are formal mathemat...
A Priori Conjectural Knowledge in Physics: The Comprehensibility of the Universe
A priori a priori knowledge physics scientific method
2008/4/9
In this paper I argue for a priori conjectural scientific knowledge about the world. Physics persistently only accepts unified theories, even though endlessly many empirically more successful disunifi...
"Fundamental Physics": Molecular Dynamics vs. Hydrodynamics
emergence intertheory relations condensed matter physics
2008/4/9
This paper concerns the scale related decoupling of the physics of breaking drops and considers the phenomenon from the point of view of both hydrodynamics and molecular dynamics at the nanolevel. It ...
“Between Physics and Biology: Chemical Sciences in the Twentieth Century”, 29-30 May 1999, München, Germany
Physics Biology Chemical Sciences
2008/4/7
Under the patronage of the UNESCO, the international science community has been shaping itself during the past decades, apparently inspired by a mixture of Prussian style of social organization, Arist...